Is there a string concatenation shortcut in PowerShell?

Question

Like with numerics?

For example,

$string = "Hello"
$string =+ " there"

In Perl you can do

my $string = "hello"
$string .= " there"

It seems a bit verbose to have to do

$string = $string + " there"

or

$string = "$string there"

Answer 1

You actually have the operator backwards. It should be +=, not =+:

$string = "Hello"
$string += " there"

Below is a demonstration:

PS > $string = "Hello"
PS > $string
Hello
PS > $string += " there"
PS > $string
Hello there
PS >

However, that is about the quickest/shortest solution you can get to do what you want.